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The European Network of Excellence in Cryptology (ENCRYPT) was a 4-year network of excellence funded within the Information Societies Technology (IST) Programme of the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) under contract number IST-2002-507932. It falls under the action line Towards a global dependability and security framework. ECRYPT was launched on February 1, 2004. Its objective was to intensify the collaboration of European researchers in information security, and more in particular in cryptology and digital watermarking.